Equipment Engineer, Cell Manufacturing
Tesla
Fremont, CA, USA
Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2024
What to Expect What You’ll Bring
As an Equipment Engineer at Tesla, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing equipment for our advanced battery cell manufacturing processes. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to building a world-class manufacturing facility from the ground up in a fast-paced and demanding environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Quality, and Process teams, to take new products from initial design through prototype development to full production. Your work will involve optimizing equipment and processes, ensuring safety, and driving continuous improvements in a critical subsystem of innovative products.
What You’ll Do- Oversee the startup, validation, and enhancement of new and existing equipment and fixtures for production
- Lead initiatives to improve safety and ergonomics of production equipment, ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices
- Design, fabricate, install, and modify equipment improvements, including managing bidding and quoting processes
- Collaborate with Controls Engineers and Technicians to troubleshoot and optimize processes using PLC, HMI, or tool management software
- Develop detailed maintenance instructions for complex and ambiguous repair tasks
- Create preventive maintenance procedures and a comprehensive spares list to enhance equipment OEE
- Manage continuous improvement projects to drive equipment performance based on metrics such as OEE, Availability, MTTR, and MTBF
- Integrate machine interactions with the plant-wide Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of hands-on experience as a Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineer with a focus on automation or electromechanical systems
- Proven experience in ramping equipment into manufacturing, including automation, hydraulics, pneumatics, electromechanical systems, and motion controls
- Experience developing operating and maintenance instructions and training operators
- Proficiency in CAD design tools such as SolidWorks (Catia is a plus)
- Preferred experience with layout creation, tooling drawings, pneumatic, and electrical schematics
- Preferred experience in robot programming and vision systems (e.g., Cognex, Keyence)
- Preferred experience with semi-automated or automated manufacturing equipment in a high-volume environment